Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

Data Infrastructure, Safety

Roblox

Roblox

5,001-10,000 employees

User-generated multiplayer platform for immersive experiences

Compensation Overview

$196.8k - $243.3k/yr

+ Equity Compensation

No H1B Sponsorship

San Mateo, CA, USA

Hybrid

Office-based role; onsite Tue–Thu; optional Mon and Fri.

Bachelor's

Category
Software Engineering
Required Skills
NoSQL
Microservices

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Requirements
  • 4+ years of experience in software development.
  • Distributed Systems Architecture: Proven ability to design and implement robust, high-throughput microservices (handling thousands of requests per second) while maintaining a strict focus on system safety and security.
  • Backend Proficiency: Experience with non-relational datastores and large scale systems.
  • Safety-Driven Mindset: A strong commitment to designing, implementing, and maintaining systems that prioritize user safety, data integrity, and compliance with safety policies.
  • Equivalent experience or a BS in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or another technical field.
  • Curious to learn new technologies and systematically grow your skills.
Responsibilities
  • Assume ownership of the complete lifecycle for full-stack features within Safety Data Infra ranging from technical specification, implementation, rollout, monitoring, and iteration, ensuring alignment with the designated pod roadmap.
  • Engage in close collaboration with partner teams in Content Safety, Safety Experience, Accounts, ML Foundations and Roblox database platform teams.
  • Define the architectural direction for scaling Safety Data Infra.
  • Take complete responsibility for projects throughout their entire lifecycle.
  • Drive cross-functional engagement and lead technical initiatives to ensure the widespread adoption and success of our core safety applications.
  • Report directly to the Manager of Account Security and Infra.
Desired Qualifications
  • AI native: You are eager to define and build AI-centric solutions, incorporating modern machine learning and agentic AI capabilities directly into the core user experience and system architecture.
  • Versatile & Adaptable: We write and review code primarily in Rust with some adjacent systems in Go, C#, C++ and Python.
  • Analytical & Data-Driven: You possess a strong ability to instrument, collect, and analyze user interaction data (e.g., A/B testing, usage metrics) to inform design decisions and continuously maximize user impact and product performance.
  • Team-Player & Technical Leader: You are a collaborative team member who actively mentors peers, drives technical excellence, and takes ownership of leading and delivering key features and projects across team boundaries.

Roblox provides a global virtual platform where people, especially under 18, can learn, work, play, and socialize by joining games and experiences created by a large community of developers. Using Roblox Studio, creators build immersive multiplayer experiences that run on the platform for others to explore and enjoy. The platform supports cross‑device access and social features, allowing players to interact, team up, and share content. Revenue comes from in‑platform purchases (such as virtual currency and items) and subscriptions, fueling a large ecosystem for both players and creators. What sets Roblox apart is its emphasis on user‑generated content and a scalable marketplace where millions of new games and experiences are continuously added by the community, rather than a single author-driven catalog. The company aims to connect people through shared, accessible digital experiences and to empower developers to build, monetize, and grow their communities on the platform.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Mateo, California

Founded

2004

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Q2 2026 DAUs reached 123 million, proving continued audience scale.
  • Roblox shipped Moments, Chat, and Me, tightening discovery, messaging, and identity.
  • Creator tooling advanced with music licensing, Ads Manager APIs, and app themes.

What critics are saying

  • Q3 2026 bookings guide fell 14% to 18%, and full-year guidance vanished.
  • Ohio's August 10 securities suit joins 130-plus child-safety cases and state actions.
  • EU VLOP designation and age-verification mandates create compliance costs and existential platform-risk.

What makes Roblox unique

  • Roblox Studio lets millions build multiplayer worlds, reinforcing a creator-led content flywheel.
  • June 2026 RFY now uses 28-day retention signals, privileging durable games.
  • Predictive Streaming and Server History deepen infrastructure advantages for large, persistent worlds.

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Benefits

Benefits and Perks - The health and well-being of our employees and their families is our top priority. We offer robust and comprehensive programs with variety to best meet your needs.

Well-Being Benefits - With flexible time off and a bi-annual, company-wide spring/summer recharge, Roblox knows how to balance working hard with winding down.

Financial Benefits - Competitive compensation packages, 401(k) matching, and flexible share incentives that let you choose how to share in our success.

Health and Wellness - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, family planning resources, and 12 weeks off for all new parents.

Flexible Workplace - Our hybrid work schedule balances working onsite and working remotely. Enjoy daily lunch and an in-house fitness center when working from our San Mateo headquarters.

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

14%

1 year growth

13%

2 year growth

11%
Yahoo Finance
Aug 10th, 2026
Cathie Wood buys 80,000 Nvidia shares amid AI panic, dumps Roblox after 50% crash

Cathie Wood's Ark Investment Management recently purchased 80,000 Nvidia shares across five funds while reducing its Roblox holdings, despite Wall Street concerns about an AI spending bubble. Nvidia's data center networking revenue surged nearly 200% year over year last quarter, with roughly half now coming from diverse customers beyond major hyperscalers. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet plan to spend up to $725 billion this year, up 77% annually, with Nvidia positioned to capture 35% to 40% of that spending. Meanwhile, Roblox disappointed with second-quarter bookings rising just 8% year over year at guidance's low end. Management withdrew full-year outlook, and third-quarter bookings guidance points to a 14% to 18% year-over-year decline. The stock has fallen over 50% year to date.

Free Game Tips Ltd.
Aug 10th, 2026
Dig & Clean codes set to debut in august 2026, gaming community buzzes.

Dig & Clean codes set to debut in august 2026, gaming community buzzes. Roblox's Dig and Clean has just released a new lineup of luck-boosting codes that will inflate player fortunes for brief, intense bursts. New codes and their bonuses. Players should note that no codes have expired while the latest update introduces two fresh entries: Discover more Mobile Game Guides Collectible Game Coins Free Spins Calendar * UPDATE1: grants double luck for a 30-minute span. * SECRET10: provides ten-fold luck for 10 minutes. Both codes activate only after the tutorial segment of the game has been completed, ensuring all players have access to the redemption interface. Redeeming codes in Dig and Clean. To unlock the shop and input these codes, follow these steps: * Launch the Dig and Clean experience on Roblox. * Navigate to the Shop panel located on the left-hand menu. * Enter a valid code into the provided field and press the Redeem button. Once redeemed, the bonus immediately applies to your luck meter, enhancing your digging and selling potential. Keeping codes current and troubleshooting. Fans often monitor the official Discord channel dedicated to Dig and Clean for the freshest code additions, as the development team circulates them inside the game and through the server. Bookmark the code-list page and revisit periodically to capture the latest releases. If a code fails, verify that the tutorial is completed, the code copy is exact - use the copy button where available - and that the game servers are online. If server issues persist, consider creating a private game match or waiting for a scheduled server restart by the developers.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 6th, 2026
Roblox director sells $624K in shares as stock plunges 72% in one year

Gregory Baszucki, a Roblox Corporation board director, sold 16,666 shares of Class A Common Stock on 4 August 2026 for approximately $624,308, according to an SEC Form 4 filing. The shares were sold at a weighted average price of $37.46. The sale represents a 0.14% reduction in Baszucki's total equity holdings, leaving him with approximately 12 million shares held primarily through trust entities. The transaction occurred as Roblox stock experienced a one-year return of -72%. The sale was executed under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted on 28 November 2025, indicating the disposition was scheduled in advance. At market close on 4 August 2026, Roblox shares traded at $37.00, giving the company a market capitalisation of $26.4 billion.

AccuroAI
Aug 6th, 2026
Claude Cowork and Claude Code: the enterprise security review.

Claude Cowork and Claude Code: the enterprise security review. Both halves are true: Claude's enterprise controls are genuinely good (inference hooks, Compliance API, HIPAA path), and a sophisticated customer still presented a real Claude Code credential-exfiltration incident at Black Hat. The review covers both. Dr. Marcus Chen Threat Intelligence Director 2026-08-06 Anthropic's enterprise push has produced the most security-forward agent stack of the major labs - and, in the same July week, one of the clearest first-party demonstrations of why that stack still needs governance around it: at Black Hat USA 2026, Roblox's engineers presented a real credential-exfiltration incident involving Claude Code, along with the multi-layer sandbox they built to contain coding agents afterward. Both halves of that sentence are the review: Claude's enterprise controls are genuinely good, and genuinely not enough on their own. This is the security review of the two products your teams are asking about - Claude Code (the coding agent) and Claude Cowork (the workspace agent) - what Anthropic ships, what the incident record teaches, and the hardening checklist for both. Last verified: August 6, 2026. Several July features are new and evolving; reverify against Anthropic's current documentation. What you're actually approving. Claude Code runs in terminals and IDEs with repository-scale context: it reads your codebase, executes commands, and - via MCP - reaches file systems, databases, and internal APIs. Claude Cowork brings the same agentic model to knowledge work: connected apps, files, multi-step autonomous tasks, with Microsoft 365 write capabilities added in July. The common denominator: both hold real credentials and act on real systems, mostly from endpoints your network tools cannot see into. What Anthropic ships for the enterprise (a genuinely strong list). * Inference hooks (beta, August 5) - real-time policy inspection inside Claude across Chat, Claude Code, Cowork, and tool responses. First-party inline enforcement as a platform primitive is a category first, and it is a direct integration surface for governance vendors - including AccuroAI. * Compliance API - programmatic access to conversations, files, and audit events for your tooling. * MCP spec 2026-07-28 adoption - hardened OAuth-based authorization, a 950+ server connector directory with an observability dashboard, and previewed enterprise-managed auth. * Self-serve HIPAA configuration (July) and FedRAMP High availability for Cowork - regulated-industry paths most agent products lack. * Published CISO guidance built on four questions - untrusted content, available actions, blast radius, observability - which is, frankly, the right frame. What the incident record teaches anyway. 1. The Roblox lesson: credentials are the blast radius. A coding agent with repo access is also an agent with access to everything in the repo and its environment - .env files, cloud keys, tokens in config. Roblox's answer was containment architecture: layered sandboxes around what the agent can reach. The generalizable controls: scan context for secrets before it uploads (60+ secret types is its coverage), scope agent credentials per-task rather than per-developer, and rotate anything an agent has ever read. 2. MCP is the power and the exposure. A 950-server directory makes MCP allowlisting an operational necessity, not a nicety - tool poisoning via description payloads was Microsoft's June warning, and skill/MCP files as a malware channel was a Black Hat talk two days ago. Every Claude Code deployment inherits whatever MCP servers developers wire up; most organizations cannot list theirs. 3. Memory and long-horizon tasks extend the injection window. Cowork's multi-step autonomy meets the same cross-turn persistence research shown at Black Hat: injected instructions that survive in context and memory beyond the turn that planted them. Per-turn input filtering is not the defense; action-level policy is. 4. First-party hooks are not third-party assurance. Inference hooks are excellent - and they are Anthropic's hooks, inside Anthropic's runtime, covering Anthropic's products. Your estate also runs Copilot, ChatGPT, and homegrown agents; your auditors want evidence that does not depend on the audited platform; and your endpoint blind spot (local MCP servers, other tools) is outside any one vendor's hooks by definition. The architecture that works: use the hooks as an enforcement point, keep policy and evidence in an independent layer that spans the estate. Hardening checklist. * Deploy Claude Code with secret-scanning on context before rollout, not after the first key leaks. * Stand up an MCP allowlist and a lightweight internal registration path; sweep endpoints for unsanctioned servers quarterly. * Scope Cowork's M365 write access per-group; start read-only, expand per workflow. * Wire the Compliance API / inference hooks into your DLP and SIEM - the primitives exist; unused primitives are gaps. * Give agents distinct identities and credentials - the Okta finding that agents overwhelmingly authenticate as humans is the anti-pattern to design against. * Log and review agent actions weekly during pilot: tool calls, destinations, and anything following untrusted content. * If PHI is in scope, execute the BAA and confirm the HIPAA configuration covers the specific products in use. Verdict. Claude Code and Cowork are approvable - Anthropic has done more of the enterprise homework than any competitor, and the July-August releases (hooks, managed auth, HIPAA path) close real gaps. But the Roblox incident is the honest coda: a security-forward vendor, a sophisticated customer, and a credential exfiltration anyway. The controls that would have caught it - secret scanning at the boundary, scoped agent credentials, independent action logging - are yours to run, not the model vendor's. Approve the products; own the governance. Faq. Is Claude Code safe for its developers? With secret-scanning on outbound context, scoped credentials, and MCP allowlisting - yes, and the productivity case is real. Without those three, you are trusting every repository's hygiene and every developer's dotfiles, which is what the incident record argues against. Do Anthropic's inference hooks replace third-party DLP? They replace a slice of it for Claude traffic, and AccuroAI say that plainly. What they cannot provide: one policy across Claude + Copilot + ChatGPT + custom agents, endpoint discovery of what is running, or platform-independent audit evidence. Hooks are an enforcement point; governance is the layer above. Claude Cowork vs ChatGPT Work - which is safer? Anthropic currently ships more security surface (hooks, compliance API, FedRAMP path); OpenAI ships strong admin controls (preauthorization, scoping). The honest answer: the deployment posture you run matters more than the vendor gap - and most enterprises will end up running both, which is an argument for governance that spans them. See its ChatGPT Work review for the other half. What is the single highest-leverage control? Secret scanning on agent context before it leaves the device. It is cheap, invisible to developers until it fires, and it directly addresses the failure mode that made the news. Sources: Black Hat USA 2026 - Roblox "Caging the Agent" and related briefings · Anthropic product announcements July-August 2026 (inference hooks, MCP spec 2026-07-28 adoption, HIPAA configuration) per Anthropic's newsroom and release notes · MCP specification 2026-07-28 · Microsoft MCP tool-poisoning warning (June 2026) · Okta Enterprise AI Index (July 2026). See AccuroAI in action. 30-minute demo tailored to your top AI risk. See AccuroAI in action. Book a 30-minute demo and see how security teams use AccuroAI to discover, govern, and protect every AI asset across their organization.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 5th, 2026
Roblox shares plunge 30% despite 123M daily users as bookings growth slows to 8%

Roblox reported 123 million daily active users in Q2 2026, yet shares plunged nearly 30%, erasing roughly $10 billion in market value in one session — part of a $70 billion wipeout from prior highs. The issue isn't declining users but shifting engagement. Bookings grew just 8% year over year as players moved from high-monetising viral hits to newer experiences generating less revenue per hour. CFO Naveen Chopra attributed the shortfall to "a greater-than-expected shift of engagement" away from 2025's lucrative games. Roblox adjusted its recommendation algorithm to prioritise user retention over monetisation — a long-term bet investors rejected. Morningstar called the quarter "terrible," noting nearly every engagement and spending metric declined. Management revised full-year guidance downward.